Response to Bourriaud

From reading the article and watching the video I guess the point which interests me most is the questioning of whether all art is relational.
There always seems to be something which links a work to the world or society, or as mentioned in the article, a link between the artist and the curator. Connections can be found anywhere.
This is a focus in relational aesthetics, however without the intention of relating to such things is the work still relational?
I guess the same question is applied to art and maybe there doesn't need to be an answer.

I have understood the article to also be about the experience of art and as mentioned by others, the interactivity which often comments on a work not being an object or commodity. There is a common focus on exchanges that take place between people.
Relational works I enjoyed in this article which focus on these social interactions are the works by Angus Fairhurst and Alix Lambert. Fairhurst's piece in which the phones of two galleries were connected and each person at the other gallery would think the other had called is interesting as it is a way to observe social interactions, especially of people in a confusing situation. It would be really entertaining to see the result as these people are so unaware of what is going on, and they are participating and creating a work without this awareness also.
I also find it interesting when an artist really immerses themselves in to social situations for their work or research, such as Alix Lambert who was mentioned below and her six marriages and divorces in six months as the artist is involving and altering her life as a kind of experiment or investigation.

-Final points about the film, I suppose the host was interested in whether relation aesthetics was an 'ism' although I thought there were much more interesting points to investigate. Also in his interview with Gavin saying 'why make works if they are going to be about human interaction and social context, just have a good life', I thought that was a bit narrow minded. Why not make those works. It is an interesting point but a lot can be discovered through relating work to real life also, not just constructed works, objects or situations etc..